The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-05-07
ARTHUR VINTON.
A Swain of Low Degree Who
Presumed Too Little.

"Aren't you a little too kind to that young
man, Lindsay?"
Lindsay Bell, who was standing by a
table, busy modelling figure in gray clay,
walked back a step, looking at her work
with critical air, then proceeding to make
some slight alteration, said eooly: ''What
young man do You mean, Minniel Is it that
boy who brings the clayW
"Exactly," replied the'elder lady shortly
"'that boy who brings the clay'"
"a nice child, !" remarked the young artist
cheerfully.
sChildl" cried her friend and chaperone
disdainfully. "You call man OF twenty
one or two years old child!'
"Ce'd depend. ma chere; in the present in
stance, / do. He is mere infant, while L,
let me remind you, am widow aged twenty
three"
Sand look eighteen"
II am old enough to be the boys auntie, ("
continued pretty Lindsay Bell, ignoring the
interruption; II like him; he admires me
why shouldn't be kind to himp
Take care. remember once before
when you was girl in your teens you had
lover who was still younger, and you
talked then as you do now. Have you for
gotten how wild with grief you were when
he shot himself on your marriage daya"
81 was a goose" replied Mrs. Bell quietly.
"He didn't kill himself, or even inflict a
serious wound. 1t was bit of melodrama.
He is happily married now and Is none the
worse for pink scar on his forehead. /
was young and believing in those days. I've
got sense now. Besides, if you talk about
such young men as possible lovers for q
woman in my walk Of life, what am to do
about getting more clayl Can't I say q
kind word to pale, yellow-haired lad with
spirituelle expression which interests me,
without having you p0unce ON me as il l
were trying to firt with hint HaveI ever
been undignified enough to fiirt with man
beneath me in stationl .
"N-o," slowly admitted her friend; shut
there is no telling when you may begin.
This very quiet life we are leading does not
suit you, Lindsay, and the fact is, l am q
little afraid you may get into mischief"
Saying this, she left the room; and the
young artist, after smiling scornfully, and
working with careless rapidity for mo-
ment, threw down her implement, and
walking to the window, fell into profound
reverie.
There was lovely view. The house stood
high on green hill, with mountains rising
higher all around it. Below lay the peaceful
village with the white church spires {;
nearly opposite ON another hill, little to
the right was an old neOlectad camator,,
ana n was there at Lind sav,s av.s .ostayy
Something attracted her in the somber
pines and cedars which waved darkly,
sadly over the forgotten graves. The after
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